I could go on and on. You have this unique ability to connect words that hold a multitude of thoughts and images Steve. I may have said this before, in our fast-paced world where often we find ourselves with small bits of personal time while waiting for a go train or 15 minutes on a break. You create a sci-fi novel within one to three poems. It baffles and delights me, how you do this. You are giving us back time to read when we felt we may have lost it.
We should never allow ourselves to get so busy that we don’t also feed our mind and soul.
Love collaborating with you.

Thanks Tamaya. Your thoughts are very much appreciated; they help to motivate me, to keep me going, and, although I don’t like the particular word, they incentivate me. Everyone is busy and I love the idea of a very short read, a brief escape from the immediate world. It’s a pleasure to collaborate with you, thank you again.

Very poignant… That MIllie is so pragmatic. I like this description: convoluted angels, antipodean demons and unnamed peccadilloes. I can certainly relate. Pretty cool art work. And I love the title! AND I learned a new word: antipodean. Your work stretches me! In a good way. 🙂

Thanks, Margarisa. I agree, we do need a boundary. I was going to extend this piece, but to save time I’m now trying to shorten my posts. I think that if there is a severe disconnect with reality, there is the mirror from the outside, but on the inside, the reflections cause fractures, and the self tends to disintegrate.

Of course, this theory is based on impedance matching in transmission lines so there is absolutely no reason for it to be true. 😸

Thank you, Sobhana. I think that from the media, we get all these idealized images of how people are and how they relate. It’s mostly messy. Also, if you read it too closely you will realize is very shallow. 🐒

The transmission line theory does not disappoint, Steve. I enjoyed reading this thoroughly. Librarians, and those students of yours, should really have a better appreciation of, and contemplate on, the sag and tension of transmission lines as the ultimate work/life philosophy. But perhaps, Millie already knows this? 😉 😊

I’m not quite sure Millie sees it that way, but who knows? 🙂 The late-night stints I’ve done have always been about some deadline or other: e,g, coding in hotel rooms or laboratory work, not a lot of fun.

I suppose that, in any given instant, it must be true. For example, if my mouth is full of chocolate, I don’t want chocolate, because I have it. Admittedly, a short time later I may want more chocolate. Mmm, I wonder whether I have any chocolate in the fridge.

I love your latest poem especially of us being not more than other people’s fantasies of ourselves, but when will Millie demonstrate her reality.I can’t wait! The picture is delightful. Incidentally, I can spell reality, but I the computer is telling me I can’t.! Thank you for this Steve. I really enjoy your work.

I think that in our relationships with other people, we have to have models, ideas of who they are, and we base those, in a sense, on ourselves. Where those ideas are between fantasy and reality is sometimes hard to know.

I find that with spell checks as well, I mean “parameloscopic” seems perfectly fine to me. Hahaha.